Once again the rating after the team name provides a way to access the relative strength of teams. In this week’s poll Florida, the standard at 1.000, is 4.6% “better” than Texas, and 39.3% “better” than Boston College.

One thing about our Power Rankings this year – they are either off the mark, or Alabama is far worse than anyone seems to believe. I guess we will find out December 6th which is which.

I use the Power Rankings to look at likely outcomes for games. If you believe home field gives a “three point” advantage, that would equal about a 5.5% advantage for a home team.

Using our Power Rankings the matchups for the week and weekend ahead show (with home field factored in) –

Recognition

I can’t say enough about my two favorite blogs Get the Picture and Saurian Sagacity. There are not two more consistently thought-provoking and analytical college football blogs on the internet.
-Orange and Blue Hue

Rare is the SMQ shout out for the sole purpose of shouting out, but even rarer is the high substantive quality of disinterested naysaying in progress at Saurian Sagacity, where poster Mergz is steadily blowing up notions of "National Championships" new and old...-Sunday Morning Quarterback

In the old days, long before Urban Meyer roamed the sidelines at The Swamp, even before Steve Spurrier was slinging touchdowns and kicking game-winning field goals, some sports writers gave the University of Florida's football team a long-forgotten nickname: theSaurians. Today, two Florida alums pay tribute to those scribes of old as we enjoy the present and look toward the future.